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The American Senator

CHAPTER XVII
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I suppose he is injured by having a lord so near him." "Quite the contrary if he would be amenable." "You mean if he would be a creature of the lord's.

And why was that other man so uncivil to me;--the man who was the lord's gamekeeper ?" "Because you went there as a friend of Goarly." "And that's his idea of English fair play ?" asked the Senator with a jeer.
"The truth is, Mr.Gotobed," said Morton endeavouring to explain it all, "you see a part only and not the whole.

That man Goarly is a rascal." "So everybody says." "And why can't you believe everybody ?" "So everybody says on the lord's side.

But before I'm done I'll find out what people say on the other side.

I can see that he is ignorant and squalid; but that very probably is the lord's fault.


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